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00:02:12 – Featured Applicant Question: Do I need to explain my low GPA to the adcom?
00:06:18 – Why Dr. Oyer wrote Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating.
00:11:04 – The limits of economics in explaining online dating.
00:15:49 – How offline dating is like an economic market too. (Yup, economists take the fun out of everything.)
00:17:42 – Signaling: Why education is a waste, but still serves a purpose. How virtual roses signify credibility. And what the college/grad school admissions process has to do with signaling.
00:32:06 – The parallels between economics and dating – Wonderful, but not surprising.
00:33:47 – An interesting aspect of the law and MBA student internship-to-job-offer ratios.
00:38:20 – A Stanford GSB professor’s reflection on the defining characteristic of students at that b-school.
00:40:51 – How Dr. Oyer’s books have changed his teaching.
00:43:36 – What MBA students need to know before they start school.
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